Arachne press: Writing Stories, Making Senses Arachne Press are celebrating their 10th birthday with a series of writing workshops in Lewisham Libraries, themed around ‘writing the body’. This session will…

Santa’s Sci Fi Salon By darkheartblackink on December 19, 2016 On Friday 2nd December I hosted my last live event for the year-long project Hothouse, which has been looking at…

Trick or Treat By darkheartblackink on October 31, 2016 Happy Halloween all, here’s the story (I imagined for 5/6 year olds). The Visa Versa There was once a girl called…

2016 is the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, and this gave me the opportunity to work with the wonderful Vanessa Wolf Hoyle (London Dreamtime) and George Hoyle…

UNINVITED GUESTS – SEPTEMBER HOTHOUSE BLOG It’s September already, and I’m back in Deptford for a few days with Paul Clarke (one third of Uninvited Guests). We’ve had a really…

UNINVITED GUESTS – SUMMER HOTHOUSE BLOG It’s a Wednesday at the beginning of August, I’m sitting in The Albany Café and the sun is shining. Life carries on even though…

A couple of weeks I met an amazing young woman as part of the Albany’s Summer Arts programme. She tried to explain how even though there is loads of bad…

By Hothouse Artist Bernadette Russell Hello. Since I last posted it feels as though our world has changed. So much has been said and shouted and written about the EU referendum result,…

Sorry for the delay between blogs- most of my time has been taken up with editing the children’s’ blogs and making or finding sound effects (great fun), and getting everything…

I came up to Deptford Lounge earlier this week to see Bernadette Russell’s installation titled The Lost Property Office. It was originally developed as part of Deptford X visual arts…

I’ve now done two of the three creative writing workshops for the libraries, and the ideas for a guidebook for Deptford are building up, as are the ideas for what…

Hello, So, we have some news for you – last month we appointed a new associate artist to join the Hothouse team. His name is Sam Steer and he is…